Strip 2029 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Wed 2019-12-04
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
Dark plans fall like thunderbolts.
Quantum Vibe
A thousand years in the future, humanity has colonized worlds in nearly 100 galaxies, thanks to Quantum Vibremonic technologies developed five centuries earlier. Other new technologies have created various off-shoots of humanity and extended life expectancies five-fold. The story begins with how a mad scientist and his plucky assistant, along with their robot friend, brought humanity to the stars, and continues with the adventures of some unique people in fantastic places.
Kickstarter successful and closed [ May 19, 2026 ]
The Kickstarter campaign for Not-Safe.Space Chapter 3 concluded successfully on April 21, and Scott extended the time allowed for late pledges until May 19.
Books have been ordered from the printer and Scott will be spending the next week or so setting up and sending the PDF files to those who asked for them.
(There are still six of you who have not responded to the survey asking for e-mail and snail-mail addresses, he'll do the best he can.)
Thanks to all for supporting this Kickstarter!
Transcript For Strip 2029
Panel 1Another side view of the asteroid against the stellar background.
Caption: The asteroid is mostly iron, with traces of zinc and gold, and a coating of carbon.
Caption: It is 65 meters long, an average of 16.2 meters thick. Call it 275,000 cubic meters.
Caption: It masses a bit more than 2 million tonnes.
Panel 2
Close-up on the trailing end of the asteroid. We can see the machinery embedded in it.
Caption: Suppose you wanted to accelerate this massive object to, say 9-tenths of light-speed.
Caption: You can start with a combination ion/gravity drive to get things started.
Caption: But this won't get you very far, or very fast.
Panel 3
Pull back a bit to show the asteroid approaching a black-hole which is noticeably closer now.
Caption: However, the universe provides. In this case, part of the solution is a medium-sized black-hole, in this case about 250 solar masses.
Caption: Guided by automated, on-board drives, the asteroid falls faster and faster toward the inescapable abyss.
Panel 4
The missile is now so close the black hole and its halo fill the panel.
Caption: Of course, if it continues on this path, and crosses the black-holes' Schwartzschild Radius, then the whole exercise would be rather pointless.
Caption: As if someone would go to the trouble of finding an almost pure-iron asteroid, attach some expensive gear to it, and send it into a black hole, pointlessly.
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